Derivative works and fanfic readings · 5:11am Dec 1st, 2015
Sorry for my relative silence lately — I've been getting sucked into family and housecleaning thanks to the recent holiday, plus things have gotten crazy in the best possible way at work. Later this week is the vote for a $16 million grant application my employer has been coaxing through the wheels of bureaucracy for the past three years, and all the signs point to yes. We've been working sort of in startup mode for the past few years, and this is when everything suddenly starts to pay off. I'm finally allowing myself to get excited!
Be that as it may, here are some pony things you might enjoy, all of which have their genesis in things I've written:
1) The always-awesome Illya Leonov has done a reading of the equally-awesome Cold in Gardez's "The Waters of Myinnkyun's Harbor":
You might recall that as one of the entries to my Dream A Little Dream Of Me contest (it won "Best in Class, Right Brain"). If not, here's the basics: it's not just one of CiG's trademark "Lost Cities" geoexplorations, it's also an epilogue to my own story The Last Dreams of Pony Island, and an eloquent meditation on what was left behind after the blood and thunder of the original piece. (May contain spoilers.)
2) mindlessgonzo runs a pony livestream, and recently teamed up with a friend to do a livereading of my story "If You Can't Beat ''Em…":
It's not quite an audiobook version — the text is mixed in with the readers' reactions and commentary, which is distracting if you only want my text, but adds extra spice if you enjoy reaction videos. The audio quality is high, they explain one of the story's more obscure references, and it was gratifying to me to see their reactions change as the story won them over.
3) Journeyman enjoyed my ponies-getting-drunk-and-talking-about-sex saga "Social Lubricant", and was inspired to add a story to their shorts collection that re-envisions the infamous scene with Fluttershy and Chrysalis in Chapter 5.
It's called "Second Chances," and can be found at Chapter 18 of their story collection "Journeyman's Journal: Adult Edition". Site rules forbid linking NSFW stories in non-adult blog posts, but if you have View Mature turned on, this search will take you to it. It's got, in his words, "a little less porn and a little more feels," but it's definitely got (tenderly understated) porn as well.
The completist in me is compelled to note that Journeyman's fic isn't the first to be inspired by that scene.
(It was interesting searching my Tracking shelf for "Fluttershy, Dark"; Benman and Bad Horse seem to have the market cornered.)
EDIT: How did you keep the square brackets in that URL from breaking BBCode?
EDIT 2: ELECTRIC SCOOTALOO: see 3584009; 3583982 thx bby
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Re the tag question: Must have been a browser difference in how it was copy-pasted? You can't have a link with brackets in it, but if you erase them and replace them with their HTML-escaped equivalents (%5B for [ and %5D for ]), the link will still work. So right after the question mark you should see: tags%5B%5D=(etc.) e.g. The Trouble With Sympathy.
And yeah, Benman preread Social Lubricant for me, and actually published TTWS before the story that inspired it. Which I'm grateful for, because it helped shame me into actually getting my most-upvoted story published.
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It must be a browser difference. I was about to tell you that didn't make sense because the link in the post has square brackets when I hover for a URL preview, but then I noticed the example in your comment also has them. Apparently Firefox converts those %escape characters automatically. I'll edit my comment again and compare the source to the hover-preview.
EDIT: Eeeyup.
You are the first one to correctly deduce that I am indeed a hive mind.
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Now I'm not saying that I'm a changeling, because that would be silly hahahahaha, but re the hive mind: it takes one to know one.